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I know that the Cloud Native Computing Foundation chose Prometheus as the monitoring platform of choice for Kubernetes, but in this post I'll show you how to quickly get started with graphing CPU, memory, disk and network in a Kubernetes cluster using Heapster, InfluxDB and Grafana.

The documentation in the kubernetes/heapster GitHub repo is actually pretty good. Here's what I did:

I've been knee-deep in Kubernetes for the past few weeks and to say that I like it is an understatement. It's exhilarating to have at your fingertips a distributed platfom created by Google's massive brain power.

I'll jump right in and talk about how I installed Kubernetes in AWS and how I created various resources in Kubernetes in order to run a database-backed PHP-based web application.

Installing Kubernetes

I used the tack tool from my laptop running OSX to spin up a Kubernetes cluster in AWS. Tack uses terraform under the hood, which I liked a lot because it makes it very easy to delete all AWS resources and start from scratch while you are experimenting with it. I went with the tack defaults and spun up 3 m3.medium EC2 instances for running etcd and the Kubernetes API, the scheduler and the controller manager in an HA configuration. Tack also provisioned 3 m3.medium EC2 instances as Kubernetes workers/minions, in an EC2 auto-scaling group. Finally, tack spun up a t…